(How many days did I saw we have left?!?!) I’m trying to work out exactly what to do on the center of the altar cover that all those goldwork letters are going on!ĭesign ideas for the central medallion have been jumbling around in my brain ever since we started the project, but they’re only now making their way onto paper and into the computer. You can see in the photo at the beginning of this article that I’m working on some ecclesiastical design cartoons.
This cartoon is what you draw in Inkscape and similar programs. This line drawing of a design is referred to as a “cartoon” in art – not a funny-ha-ha cartoon of nostalgic Saturday-morning fame, but rather the full-scale preparatory drawing used for the pattern. Normally, you don’t need the details in a transfer. Once I’m satisfied with my doodles, I concentrate just on what I need for an embroidery transfer. Sometimes, though, I might take colored pencils or watercolor pencils or markers and further embellish the drawing, working it out to see if it’s going to make sense in color and concept before I take it over to the computer. Sometimes, if it’s just a line drawing I want, I’ll stop there. I start designing on paper, doodling up what I have in mind. They have a whole new interface and it’s really nice to work on! Paper to Computer I find that I turn to Inkscape way more frequently than I do Illustrator lately. The developers behind Inkscape are always updating and improving the software – it’s come a long way since I first started using it some 16 years ago.įor beginners, Inkscape is also more user-friendly than Illustrator. Instead, I recommend Inkscape, which is open-source software that’s free to use. Because I use many of the apps in the Adobe Creative Suite, I sometimes use Adobe Illustrator for vector drawing, but it’s not something I recommend to most people who are just trying to figure the whole thing out. Vector graphics are created in software programs like Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW, both of which are not inexpensive to use. I think the questions mostly come from folks who are contemplating stepping into the world of embroidery designing, or making line drawings that people can transfer and stitch.Ī scalable graphic on a computer is called a vector graphic. Specifically, it seems that the question is how I get a design from hand-drawn to something that can be published easily for other people to use. One question I get asked very frequently is how I “make” my embroidery designs. We’ll also touch a bit on Little Blooms – the upcoming stitch-along here on Needle ‘n Thread – and the kits at the end of the article. Today, I’ll chat a bit about what I’ve been up to on the computer, sharing some techy info, especially for those who often and frequently ask about software for creating their own embroidery patterns (or line drawings to use for embroidery patterns).
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